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Backend Enablement

Enable configurable Instana backend and agent communication ports instead of requiring default 80/443 ports.

Many enterprise customers operate Instana in highly restricted network environments where standard HTTP/HTTPS ports such as 80 and 443 may be tightly controlled by centralized security or network teams. In these environments, customers may be requ...
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement

smart alert ui view timeseries graph does not show triggered events but edit mode graph shows

We do run application monitoring for huge amount of applications and services. When looking at smart alert 24h/7d timeseries graph view, you don't see symbol for triggered events but in the edit mode (potential) triggered events shown. Information...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Submitted

Need to improve observation of account/billing data usage

Customer has migrated to instana saas service andnow we need a way to - monitor- alertdata ingest programmatically.UI information is not sufficient and cannot be accessed by scripted alerting. To improve observation of account/billing data usage w...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Submitted

Platform feature flags should be turned on by default (VMware, Power HMC, etc.)

The feature flags to enable capabilities like VMware, Power HMC, zHMC, SAP, etc. should be enabled by default. By not enabling these, we drive up our support costs and drive down customer satisfaction. Now, we do need to think about the best way t...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units. Currently, when a user is logged in, they can only see one Unit at a time and have to continuosly switch back and forth between units. There are two reasons they want visibility across multipl...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Backend Enablement Not under consideration

Improve Custom Service rules in the UI and the backend

Hi, We need to adjust the service naming for some services as the automatically discovered names are not allowing us to monitor the services in context of the line of business and production environment. Adjustable custom service rules - regex ena...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

instana alerts triggered on occurence of several events

Currently it is possible to raise alerts on the occurence of one or more events but event by event. I would be awesome to be able to create alerts triggered on the occurence of more than one event occuring at the same time. So alert condition are ...
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement

Backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for a "backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events" to support operational continuity, disaster recovery, and change management in large environments where hu...
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Functionality already exists

log instana api request origin e.g. host address

We have instana monitoring integrated with several tools consuming data from instana via Instana REST API.It would very benificial to have logged either in audit log or/and in api token overview in instana the origin of api request with source ip/...
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Not under consideration

When running Stanctl up, it should be possible to run without doing an update.

If there is a new version of backend available. You can`t run Stanctl up without doing an update or cancel Stanctl up. It should be possible to do an Stanctl without update. Because if you have some issue and have to restore VM. You want to run st...
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Functionality already exists

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